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    Use "petroleum" in a sentence

    petroleum example sentences

    petroleum


    1. Wide mouthed jars coated with petroleum jelly on the top


    2. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, n


    3. I hereby suggest that we change its name to the Tactical Petroleum Reserve


    4. Rather, the United States ceased all trade with that Arab country and resumed its importation of Iraqi petroleum only when, several years later, the “oil for food” program was initiated for the benefit of the Iraqi people


    5. Today, that trade constitutes less than 5% of the total petroleum imported by the United States


    6. In addition, French petroleum company Total Fina Elf has negotiated the development and exploration of the Iraqi petroleum fields Majnoon and Nahr Umar which represent 25% of all the oil reserves in Iraq


    7. subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum expanded the use of the site and in 1947 acquired the land


    8. The EPA sued Occidental Petroleum, who agreed to pay $129 million to the


    9. The petroleum industry reached the island


    10. • We operate a fleet of trucks that transport petroleum products

    11. Which is what we are doing for we are importing around two thirds of our petroleum needs


    12. The National Petroleum Reserve- Alaska (NPR-A) was a 23 million stretch of Alaska‘s North Slope set aside by President Warren Harding for the purpose of supplying our country with oil and gas


    13. ―For heavens sake, if we can‘t drill in the National Petroleum Reserve – an area specifically designated by Congress for oil and gas production – where can we drill?‖


    14. You’re the petroleum officer?”


    15. The small hatches in the tops of these shafts allowed the mate and petroleum officer to stick the tanks and take samples


    16. “Do you recall who was charged with the responsibility of providing communications for the petroleum unloading operations?”


    17. The list was a compendium of the most serious of the 94 military targets in North Vietnam ranging from POL (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubrication) storage areas to docking facilities in the Haiphong Harbor and the two rail lines running south out of Red China


    18. The exploitation of Alaskan oil fields and the shipping of petroleum from Alaskan terminals to Puget Sound in Washington state caused the Coast Guard to establish marine safety and traffic systems and provide navigation assistance with LORAN-C stations along the commercial route (Johnson, R


    19. The necessity of monitoring the production and transportation of petroleum was demonstrated even more graphically in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez ran aground


    20. Accordingly, the petroleum producing countries have had

    21. accumulated around the topic of global petroleum reserves forced me to re-examine a


    22. The petroleum stocks we have are still worth quiet a bit, Jan and I were discussing what to do


    23. Part of what made the task so difficult was the lack of petroleum distillates they would have had on Earth


    24. Plans exist to control certain inventions that could solve many problems with the petroleum industry and other industries around the world


    25. Franklin Tarbell and 3,000 others met at the Titusville Opera House and organized the group, Petroleum Producers Union, which refused to deal with anyone connected to Standard Oil


    26. Zygobat is the equivalent of your petroleum but without any


    27. Like petroleum it is in a liquid-like form


    28. In 1953, Hooker Chemical (a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum) filled the canal, covered it with dirt and sold it to the Board of Education for one dollar


    29. Eventually, Occidental Petroleum paid $98 million to the state for cleanup, tests, relocation, the houses and more


    30. It’s found in ammonia, anesthetics, antihistamines, artificial limbs, artificial turf, antiseptics, aspirin, auto parts, awnings, balloons, ballpoint pens, bandages, beach umbrellas, boats, cameras, candles, car battery cases, carpets, caulking, combs, cortisones, cosmetics, crayons, credit cards, curtains, deodorants, detergents, dice, disposable diapers, dolls, dyes, eye glasses, electrical wiring insulation, faucet washers, fishing rods, fishing line, fishing lures, food preservatives, food packaging, garden hose, glue, hair coloring, hair curlers, hand lotion, hearing aids, heart valves, ink, insect repellant, insecticides, linoleum, lipstick, milk jugs, nail polish, oil filters, panty hose, perfume, petroleum jelly, rubber cement, rubbing alcohol, shampoo, shaving cream, shoes, toothpaste, trash bags, upholstery, vitamin capsules, water pipes and yarn

    31. We may have lost 10-15 years and polluted the planet needlessly with petroleum combustion byproducts, because of Chevron and the oil industry’s decision in this regard and their squeeze on the world economy, forcing the world to buy their product, when change over to electric was possible


    32. Petroleum – a frequent visitor to the area


    33. In the case of the merger between Phillips Petroleum and Conoco in


    34. On the other hand, Phillips Petroleum did not have excessive debt on its balance


    35. The decision to merge Phillips Petroleum with Conoco was a masterpiece of both


    36. company was radically different than the old Philips Petroleum


    37. In 2007 Forbes reported that Ray Irani, chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum, received compensation worth more than $321 million in one year


    38. Indeed, that would have been the case had technology not advanced and alternatives to whale oils been found: petroleum


    39. Other sectors which consume petroleum products for energy use are the domestic sector, electricity generation, and industrial users


    40. Non-energy use accounts for the balance of 15 per cent of total petroleum product consumption

    41. Inland use of petroleum products, 1998


    42. Demand for the main petroleum products is illustrated in Chart 5


    43. that the overall petroleum share has


    44. that of all other petroleum products for


    45. The fall in consumption since 1970 has been in petroleum (own by 78 per cent) a solid fuel (own by 88 per cent), whereas electricity consumption increase till 1990 (though there has been no further significant rise


    46. Petroleum accounts for 99 per cent of transport energy use, the other 1 per cent consisting of electricity


    47. The 1 per cent of electricity use is in rail transport and in transport premises, but even rail transport use is mainly petroleum


    48. However, since the discovery of petroleum and the moneyed luxury of those countries, the numbers of these animals became less, especially when people began to use firearms and to hunt for amusement rather than for necessity


    49. China had a petroleum agreement with OPEC who was tightly


    50. The times are cut short (by means of cars and plane), the seditions appear and the fuss increases (the murders), the money becomes affluent in your hands (the underground treasures such as petroleum, the precious minerals and others), people build high buildings, man says when passing by one's tomb: 'would that I was there instead of him' (that is because of the terrible events and the prevalent distress which will result from the quakes of the Hour), and the sun rises from its west (by people's turning towards the sun of the west civilization)














































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    Synonyms for "petroleum"

    crude crude oil fossil oil oil petroleum rock oil lubricant liniment creosote

    "petroleum" definitions

    a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons